<div class="chunk-title">Sec. 6-74. - Definitions.</div>
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               The following words, terms and phrases, when used in this article, shall have the
               meanings ascribed to them in this section, except where the context clearly indicates
               a different meaning:
               
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               <span class="ital">Administrator</span> means the individual responsible for performing the administrative functions of this
               article. The administrator shall be the county manager, unless otherwise designated
               or represented.
               
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               <span class="ital">Airport</span> means the Hyde County Airport, North Carolina.
               
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               <span class="ital">Airport elevation</span> means the highest point of an airport's usable landing area measured in feet (tenths)
               from the mean sea level.
               
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               <span class="ital">Airport hazard</span> means any structure, tree or use of land which obstructs the airspace required for
               the flight of aircraft in landing or taking off at the airport or is otherwise hazardous
               to such landing or taking-off of aircraft.
               
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               <span class="ital">Airport reference point (ARP)</span> means the point established as the approximate geographic center of the airport landing
               area and so designated.
               
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               <span class="ital">Approach surface</span> means a surface longitudinally centered on the extended runway centerline, extending
               outward and upward from the end of the primary surface and at the same slope as the
               approach zone height limitation slope set forth in<a href="" data-chunk-id="PTIICOOR_CH6AV_ARTIIIAIHEZO_S6-77AIHEZOHELI" class="section-link" data-product-id="14661"> section 6-77</a>. In plan the perimeter of the approach surface coincides with the perimeter of the
               approach zone.
               
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               <span class="ital">Approach, transitional, horizontal and conical zones</span> means these zones are set forth in<a href="" data-chunk-id="PTIICOOR_CH6AV_ARTIIIAIHEZO_S6-77AIHEZOHELI" class="section-link" data-product-id="14661"> section 6-77</a>.
               
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               <span class="ital">Authority</span> means the governing body which is lawfully empowered to exercise legal control over
               the airport. This shall be the county board of commissioners, unless otherwise designated
               or represented.
               
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               <span class="ital">Conical surface</span> means a surface extending outward and upward from the periphery of the horizontal
               surface at a slope of 20 feet horizontally for each one foot vertically (20:1) for
               a horizontal distance of 4,000 feet.
               
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               <span class="ital">County</span> means the Board of Commissioners of Hyde County, North Carolina.
               
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               <span class="ital">County board of adjustment</span> means the Board of Commissioners of Hyde County, North Carolina, unless otherwise
               designated and represented.
               
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               <span class="ital">Excepted height limitations</span> means that nothing in this article shall be construed as prohibiting the construction
               or maintenance of any structure, or growth of any tree or other vegetation to a height
               up to 50 feet above the surface of the land.
               
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               <span class="ital">Hazard to air navigation</span> means an obstruction determined to have a substantially adverse effect on the safe
               and efficient utilization of the navigable airspace. A determination by the Federal
               Aviation Administration as to a hazard to air navigation is per FAA Form 7460-1.
               
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               <span class="ital">Height,</span> for the purpose of determining the height limits in all zones set forth in this article
               and shown on the county airport height restriction ordinance map, means the mean sea
               level elevation, unless otherwise specified.
               
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               <span class="ital">Horizontal surface</span> means a circular horizontal plane 1,000 feet above the airport elevation established
               by swinging arcs of 10,000 feet radii from the end of the primary surface of each
               runway end centerline and connecting the adjacent arcs by drawing lines tangent to
               those arcs.
               
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               <span class="ital">Land use, compatible,</span> means the use of land adjacent to the airport that does not endanger the health,
               safety or welfare of the owners, occupants or users of the land.
               
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               <span class="ital">Larger than utility runway</span> means a runway that is constructed for and intended to be used by propeller-driven
               aircraft of greater than 12,500 pounds maximum gross weight and jet powered aircraft.
               
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               <span class="ital">Nonconforming use</span> means any structure, tree or use of land which does not conform to a regulation prescribed
               in this article or any amendment thereto, as of the effective date of such regulation.
               
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               <span class="ital">Nonprecision instrument runway</span> means a runway end having an instrument procedure utilizing air navigation facilities
               with horizontal approach guidance or area type navigation equipment, for which a straight-in
               nonprecision instrument approach procedure has been approved or planned.
               
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               <span class="ital">Obstruction</span> means any structure, growth, or other object, including a mobile object, which exceeds
               a limiting height.
               
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               <span class="ital">Person</span> means an individual, firm, partnership, corporation, company, association, joint
               stock association, or body politic, and includes a trustee, receiver, assignee, administrator,
               executor, guardian, or other representative.
               
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               <span class="ital">Primary surface</span> means a surface longitudinally centered on a runway extending 200 feet beyond each
               end of a hard surfaced runway. The width of the primary surface is set forth as specified
               by the width of the runway inner approach surface. The elevation of any point on the
               primary surface is the same as the elevation of the nearest point on the runway centerline.
               
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               <span class="ital">Runway</span> means a defined area on an airport prepared for the landing and taking off of aircraft
               along its length. The runway end is the physical end of the hard-surfaced asphalt
               or turf runway threshold, having a defined coordinate and elevation as noted on the
               county airport height restriction ordinance map.
               
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               <span class="ital">Runway ends</span> refers to the planned usable physical end of the hard-surfaced asphalt runway, having
               a defined coordinate and elevation as noted on the county airport height restriction
               ordinance map.
               
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               <span class="ital">Structure</span> means an object, including a mobile object, constructed or installed by man, including
               but without limitation:
               
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                  (1)
                  
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                  Buildings;
                  
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                  (2)
                  
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                  Towers;
                  
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                  (3)
                  
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                  Cranes;
                  
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                  (4)
                  
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                  Smokestacks;
                  
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                  (5)
                  
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                  Earth formations; and
                  
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                  (6)
                  
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                  Overhead transmission lines.
                  
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               <span class="ital">Transitional surface</span> means surfaces extending outward at 90-degree angles to the runway centerline at
               a slope of seven feet horizontally for each foot vertically (7:1) to a point intersecting
               with the horizontal and conical surfaces.
               
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               <span class="ital">Tree</span> means any object of natural growth.
               
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               (Ord. No. 131, Â§ 1.02, 2-7-2002)
               
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            <p class="refstatelaw0" block_type="hang"><b>State Law referenceâ€” </b>
               Definitions relating to municipal airports, G.S. 63-1.
               
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